Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s major policy speech Sunday was viewed as a positive forward step by the Obama administration for the fact that it mentioned a Palestinian state — a concept previously ignored and derided by Netanyahu and, even more so, his conservative Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. However, despite the ostensibly more accepting language, many others are condemning the speech for a number of reasons, and they reject Netanyahu’s embrace of a Palestinian state as a red herring.
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